Joshua Tate isn’t one to romanticize entrepreneurship. For the ForumPay co-founder and CEO, building a company was never about startup mythology or chasing the glossy image that often surrounds Silicon Valley success stories. If anything, Tate believes most people misunderstand what building a company actually feels like once you’re inside it. “Any entrepreneur basically comes […]

The cultural shorthand for entrepreneurship is a story of clean lines and grand successes. In the popular imagination, founders are often cast as visionaries of the digital age trailing multibillion-dollar valuations, while consumers are conditioned to look at the architecture of the finished product rather than the structural failures that almost brought it crashing down […]

It’s easy to overlook infrastructure companies. The often unsung, often invisible systems beneath the flashy consumer apps and brands that capture all the attention. Few people consider the immense coordination required to move information, value, or assets from point A to point B. That tends to change once an industry starts evolving faster than the […]

For much of its turbulent history, the crypto sector has been defined by uncertainty. Markets are prone to violent swings, regulation shifts with the whims of each political cycle, and projects that appear untouchable can disappear within a matter of months. It often seems as if instability were baked into its design. After years of […]

There is a tendency, particularly in modern business culture, to separate vision from execution, as though one belongs to the realm of ideas and the other to operations. But the longer you spend building companies, especially in industries defined by uncertainty and rapid technological change, the more artificial that distinction begins to feel. The founders […]